Jo Van Osch

You might be about to take on a more senior role, or have already. A bigger remit, leading leaders rather than doing the work yourself, and more visibility than you're used to. You may be finding that what made you good at the last role isn't quite what this one is asking for.

Your team may have grown, and the way you led before doesn't quite fit what they need from you now. You might want to communicate with more impact, to have somewhere to think properly, or to lead in a way that feels more like you.

You might have recently discovered that you're ADHD, autistic or otherwise neurodivergent, and be working out what that means for how you work and lead. Or you might have known for years and be looking for support that goes deeper than productivity strategies.

Then there's the part that gets talked about far less. The emotional side of leading. Holding other people's uncertainty while managing your own. Being the steady one when you don't feel steady. Making decisions that affect people you care about, and carrying things you can't really discuss with anyone around you.

You might also be carrying a lot, at work and at home, pretty much exhausted and not feeling like yourself.

If any of that resonates, you're in the right place.

I work with professionals, founders and leaders dealing with complex challenges. Partly professional, partly personal, and rarely straightforward. What makes my approach different is that I bring psychological depth and therapeutic training to coaching. I'm an Organisational and Coaching Psychologist with a background in therapy, which means we can work with what's happening beneath the surface. Not just goals and actions, but patterns, identity, and the things that quietly get in the way of change.

Leadership & Executive Coaching

The higher you go, the fewer places there are to think out loud. I work with CEOs, founders and senior leaders as a confidential thinking partner, a space to work through the decisions, tensions and trade-offs that are difficult to voice anywhere else.

This isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about having somewhere to bring the messy middle, test your thinking, and lead with more clarity and steadiness. Alongside that, I work with leaders on executive development, sustainable performance under pressure, navigating complexity, and the identity and relational shifts that come with growing into senior leadership.

Much of this is less about leadership as a set of skills, and more about you as the person doing the leading. Plenty of programmes will teach you frameworks. Fewer make room for what it actually costs to hold a role well: the decisions that sit with you at night, the steadiness you're expected to have on tap, the parts of it you carry without anywhere to put them.

Whether you're building something, leading through change, or carrying more than you'd like to admit, I'll meet you where you are.

Team Coaching

Most teams don't fail at the technical level. They fail at the relational one. The communication that has become careful rather than honest. The unspoken tensions that shape decisions without ever being named. The silos that formed so gradually nobody quite remembers deciding on them. If your team is capable but disconnected, that gap tends to widen over time rather than resolve itself.

I work with teams systemically, which means looking at the patterns, dynamics and unspoken agreements shaping how people work together, not just individual behaviours or outputs. This includes teams navigating trust repair, significant transitions or restructures, building psychological safety, or developing the relational foundations that make high performance sustainable.

Team coaching is not a team building day, though it may include facilitated elements. It's a sustained process that creates real change in how a team operates, relates and leads together.

Burnout: 

Burnout is a slippery slope. Most people don't notice until it hits them and they're forced to stop.

At work, you notice you're not performing the way you used to. The job you once loved doesn't move you anymore. Emotions you used to handle without thinking now knock you sideways.

You might feel yourself sliding and recognise it, because you've been here before. Burnout has a habit of repeating. Or you might be in a burnout cycle, moving between kind of okay and not okay at all, never quite getting back to yourself.

You might be returning to work after burnout, where the task isn't only recovering. It's recognising that the way you related to work before will most likely take you back there.

Burnout isn't a personal resilience problem, and you haven't brought it on yourself by not coping well enough. It usually reflects some combination of what work has been asking of you, how well it fits what matters to you, the relationships around you, and emotional load that's had nowhere to go. So that's where we'll work, rather than trying to manage it with better habits and self-care.

ADHD & Neurodiversity Coaching:

You might have been diagnosed recently, or years ago, or be fairly certain without having pursued it. Any of those is a good place to start.

I've worked with neurodivergence for over ten years, mostly with people who are ADHD, AuDHD, autistic or dyspraxic.

We'll build on what your brain is genuinely good at, meet the parts that make things harder rather than pretending they don't, and find ways of working you can sustain instead of ones that only hold while you're pushing.

Working with your brain, not against it.

And underneath that, the confidence and identity questions that often come with a late diagnosis, when you start rereading your own history in a different light.

Burnout comes up a lot here. Years of masking, of working in environments built for a different kind of brain, and of pushing through things that cost you more than they cost other people, all adds up. It often gets missed, or mistaken for depression.

Trauma comes up too, more often than people expect. Many neurodivergent adults carry the effects of years of being misunderstood, and sometimes a good deal more than that. This is coaching rather than therapy, but I'm trauma-trained and worked with trauma extensively in my therapy practice, which means that if it surfaces I can recognise it and work with it safely rather than steer around it.

Many women are diagnosed with ADHD for the first time in their forties and fifties. Falling oestrogen affects dopamine, and things that used to work stop working. If that's where you are, peri-menopause is part of the picture and we'll work with it.

I accept Access to Work funded clients.

Career transitions and outplacement
Organisational Culture and climate
Team dynamics
Resolving resistant emotions
HR
Personality profiling and ability testing

How I work

We begin with an initial consultation to explore what you’re experiencing, what you’d like to change, and whether working together feels like a good fit. This conversation helps us clarify the most appropriate coaching frame and next steps. You can book a call with me here: https://scheduler.zoom.us/inspired-at-work/get-to-know-you

To make the best use of our time, I’ll usually invite you to answer a few short questions beforehand.

Most clients work with me as part of a structured coaching container, rather than in ad-hoc sessions. Sessions are typically fortnightly, allowing space for reflection, integration, and meaningful change between sessions.

Between sessions, clients have access to resources and light between-session support where appropriate. Longer-term or broader support (for example, profiling, leadership development, or organisational consultancy) is discussed separately and only where it fits the context.

Professional and leadership coaching is usually structured over a longer timeframe, usually 6–12 months, depending on goals and context.

I accept Access to Work–funded clients.

Online coaching:

Online coaching sessions save you (and me) travel time to and from locations, clients say it often allows them to be even more focused in the session.

Online coaching sessions are through Zoom, a video conferencing application. Please make sure you have access to a good internet connection, a microphone and webcam. You’ll receive a link to my online meeting room, which you need to click at the time of the meeting. Please ask if you’re not sure about how this works.

Face-to-face coaching:

I offer face-to-face coaching sessions in various locations in the West Midlands which is where I’m based. I can also offer coaching intensives (half day, day or multiple days) in different locations.

Facilitation and training:

Please email me so that we can discuss what is possible. Facilitation and/or training could include Appreciative Enquiry sessions, Emotional Intelligence workshops, facilitating change, team and/or leadership development.

Personality profiling:

Personality and leadership profiling is also available as a separate service. Profiling can be used for development as well as recruitment. Depending on what you need, a coaching program usually includes profiling as a starting point within your journey.

For team development, workshops can be facilitated. Please contact me for further information.